Big Black Bear

I hunted over bait for bears for the first time this year, I have always spot and stalk hunted them up until this year. I went with Huntinstuff and his young boy and had a blast. Anyone who says bait hunting is easy or like shooting fish in a barrel is a fool. It is every bit as hard as spot and stalk hunting.

Bait hunting for bears is allowed for a reason, to control the population. Where I was a few weeks ago would be "almost" impossible to hunt bears spot and stalk style because of terrain/geography of the land.

I might go bait hunting again, I might not. But now I have seen for myself the challenges of hunting bears in this way. Say what you will, but it is definitely not as easy as some of you try and make it out to be.

But it was fun and that is all that matters to me, I had a great time with great friends and that is what hunting is about.
 
Hunting anything under law is for controlling the population. BC has more black bears than anywhere else, but baiting is still not allowed here.
 
riden said:
Thanks for the pics Demonical, that is one bubba bear.

As for all the other comments, good job boys. Green Peace would be proud of you!!!! Chain yourself to that bait in protest.
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+1, especially the protest suggestion...:D
 
Super pics Demonical. I hope he gets that one

I heard my neighbour shot a 7 footer the other day over bait.

You guys who think hunting over bait is easy or unethical or whatever........... are just missing the boat. It's legal and and effective hunting method. I would however suggest that you get out with a hunter from the onset of his setting up a bait and go along whever you can to get the real experience about baiting bears instead of jabbering on over the internet about something you know nothing about.

I worked my ass off this year for my bear over bait. The entire experience made me a better hunter and a better woodsman.

Pretty bad when a gun / hunting site has hunters judging other hunters:mad:

All you bait policemen can feel free to not click on the bear threads. We know your opinion and have filed them accordingly:cool:
 
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rollingrock said:
Hunting anything under law is for controlling the population. BC has more black bears than anywhere else, but baiting is still not allowed here.
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That is because of your grizzly population-you would have grizz coming in. In Alberta baiting is not allowed where there is a population of known grizzlies.
 
Nice bear..............

and holy crap people. Lay off already. It is a legal method for hunting. Enough said.

I do not hunt over bait...I am in BC.....I have no interest in doing so.....However, I can appreciate the work effort involved in managing a bait site. Where I hunt I head for the grassy patches that green up first after the snow melts. Thats where the bears are. I may not put the grass there but I am still hunting the bears at a food source. The only difference is these guys put the food source in a certain place. Again and again and again. Lots of work involved. Too much work for me. I am too lazy:D

again. Nice bear Demonical. Thanks for posting. For the rest of you...that frowns on legal hunting methods whether it is using bait, dogs, or the choice in bows or firearms. You better start being a little more open minded. All hunters need to join together to keep hunting. It's no wonder the antis beat the hell out of us all the time cause we can't even stick together as hunters.:mad:
 
Demonical said:
The intent of this thread was to show off a monster black bear, the size of which few hunters on this forum will ever see.
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Yeppers.........That's one Helluva Blackie !!! No doubt about that ! :rockOn:
Gotta love that Big Long Polar Bear Neck they get too !
Great Bear..........hope he sticks it ! :wave:
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SuperCub said:
Simple ..........one less troll.
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X2 nice one Super:rockOn:
I am not surprised that a Troll that road hunts and uses an SKS would actually criticise hunting over bait.
Anyone who is that hypocritical should be banned from oxygen:onCrack: .
 
rollingrock said:
In BC baiting bear is illegal. It's not humane and not considered as fair chase.
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What is "baiting" anyways?? Let us ponder this point. :rolleyes:

Duck call = bait
Duck decoy = bait
Ducks/geese near food source = bait

Deer bleat call = bait
Deer grunt call = bait
Doe in heat scent = bait
Buck scent = bait
Deer decoy = bait
Deer near food source = bait

Turkey call = bait
Turkey decoy = bait
Turkey near food source = bait

Moose cow call = bait
Moose bull call = bait
Moose urine smelly = bait
Moose near food source = bait

GET THE POINT?
 
I think you just summed it all up Supercub. Nice bear. Sounds like someone is jealous that they don't have the knowledge to go get a nice bear. Keep us posted if your friend tags this bruin.
 
very nice!!!

Ya he is a shooter, Just talked to the old man he was fenceing around the farm today and he came across a huge bear ,instead of going under the fence he just put his paw on the barbwire pushed it down and walked over,the old man said it was the biggest he has seen . going out this weekend!!
 
BUTCHJESSOP what's your area and how do you hunt bears there? Most things I have read about bear hunting in Manitoba is over bait. Also Manitoba has about the biggest bears in N.A., some enormous Booners taken there every year, in fact I think Manitoba producers more Booners then any other area of N.A. year over year, and nice color phases too.

Good luck from me and post the pics!! :)
 
You know, I get really pissed off when I hear guys like rollingrock and x-man #####ing about hunting bears by using bait. From what I understand, most folks in BC hunt in areas where there are logging roads and trails, and have many clear cuts to spot bears in. In Manitoba, the forest does not get very tall, our trees are like toothpicks compared to the trees in BC. What we do get is mixed pine/spruce/poplar bush that is so thick, you can't see more than a few yards into. The land is flat, so even in areas where there is cutting, you don't get the view like you do in BC on mountain sides. Finally there are sometjhing like twenty times the number of bears in BC as compared to Manitoba. YOu can spot and stalk in Manitoba, and your chances are not very good. Baiting certainly improves the odds, but we still have a less than 50% success rate. Working a bait is hard work. It requires skills like remaining still and silent for long periods. You have to identify your target and make an ethical kill. It is not any easier or less sporting, just different.
 
I know it was not over bait, and I just was hunting deer, but silently waiting for a grand total of 7 days (off and on) in a tree stand, trying to stay silent with a compound bow, requires extreme patience.

I am not sure if I could do this again, it takes some self-discipline to do so.

Bear hunters do this on a more regular basis than me......

EDIT: Provincial laws can be really fickle too! I think Nova Scotia requires you by law to hunt black bear from a tree stand. I think spot and staulk bear hunting, is illegal there!?!
 
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Deano said:
You know, I get really pissed off when I hear guys like rollingrock and x-man #####ing about hunting bears by using bait. From what I understand, most folks in BC hunt in areas where there are logging roads and trails, and have many clear cuts to spot bears in. In Manitoba, the forest does not get very tall, our trees are like toothpicks compared to the trees in BC. What we do get is mixed pine/spruce/poplar bush that is so thick, you can't see more than a few yards into. The land is flat, so even in areas where there is cutting, you don't get the view like you do in BC on mountain sides. Finally there are sometjhing like twenty times the number of bears in BC as compared to Manitoba. YOu can spot and stalk in Manitoba, and your chances are not very good. Baiting certainly improves the odds, but we still have a less than 50% success rate. Working a bait is hard work. It requires skills like remaining still and silent for long periods. You have to identify your target and make an ethical kill. It is not any easier or less sporting, just different.
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Well said! I concur. Northern Alberta is the same way as well.
 
Here in central Alberta you would see 1 bear for about every 2,000 miles of muskeg that you would slog through.

The only practical hunting methods are to drive the roads in wilderness areas or baiting in WMU's where it is legal.
So when you're driving around you hope to catch a bear feeding on an oil/gas pipeline. You almost never see bears in cutblocks in Alberta in the spring; there is no feed for them there. If you see a bear feeding on a cutline you stop and glass it to try to see if it's worth stalking.

I've seen exactly 20 bears this spring and only 1 was worth a stalk for closer evaluation. It turned out to be a 6'er; not worth shooting (I'm holding out for a 7' bear).

Baiting, well of course that is simple right? Spend several days/weeks scouting the bush to find a suitabe bait site. Scrounge around to accumulate bait, and that can be a real PITA!! Then it's multiple trips back and forth to check and refresh the bait. If you are lucky a big bear will hit it but the odds are you'll get mostly small bears and the worst thing is stupid sow with cubs that come in on your bait, cuz then it can get nasty... :eek:

Ever read Mumptia's posts regarding the aggressive bear that kept charging them and threatening them? Bears can get real possessive over a bait site. :eek:

So after all that effort you then sit quietly swatting mosquitoes and trying to stay alert and hoping the big bear comes before dark and hoping like hell you don't walk into the S.O.B. in the dark on the way out etc...


Like Gatehouse said, it's a helluva a lot easier to just hike through the logging roads on Vancouver Island...
 
Let me sum it up for you

Awesome bear, better pics, and hopefully a good story once it all pans out...


#### the trolls... why even respond...
 
My 2 cents worth: a) thats a beauty black bear
b) baiting bears is alot of work and if succesful, you deserve
your bear.
c) shooting at an animal like that with a puny cartridge that
has much less power than a 30/30 is inexcusable.
 
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